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The war in Vietnam achieved almost none of the goals the American
decision-makers formulated, and it cost more than 56,000 American
lives. Yet, until recently, Americans have preferred to ignore the
causes and consequences of this disaster by treating the war as an
aberration in United States foreign policy, an unfortunate but
unique mistake. What are the ""lessons"" of Vietnam? Many previous
discussions have focused on narrow or misleading questions,
rehashing military decisions, for example, or offering blow-by-blow
accounts of Washington infighting, or castigating foreign-policy
decision-makers. Michael Sullivan undertakes instead a broad and
systematic treatment of the American experience in Vietnam, using a
variety of theoretical perspectives to study several aspects of
that experience, including the decision-making process and
decision-makers' perceptions of the war; public opinion and
""mood"" before, during, and after the war; and the Vietnam War in
relation to the Cold War and to power structures and patterns of
violence in the international system. The major goal of The Vietnam
War: A Study in the Making of American Policy is to show that the
American experience, not only in Vietnam but elsewhere in the
world, must be understood as an integral part of the processes of
both American foreign policy and international politics. Sullivan
demonstrates the importance of using a variety of empirical and
quantitative evidence to study foreign policy and of relating a
specific historical situation like the Vietnam War to broader
theories of international relations.
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